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...moving force behind the new, $25 million station is a man who has a special interest in the comfort of Japanese bus riders: Kenji Osano, a burly, self-made millionaire who owns most of the buses that will use the new terminal. Last week, with his eye on lengthier travel as well, Osano asked the Japanese government for permission to start a bus line from Tokyo to a moun tain resort 140 miles away; he hopes that it will be the first link in a Greyhound-like system for Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: A Farm Boy Who's Going to Town | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...says different? Elder's proposals prominently feature a clause for lengthier plans of study. They recommend only that such special cases be reported to the Dean's office and be reviewed by the Administrative Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four-Year Plan | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...Language (by Edward Beloin & Henry Garson) boasts a fair enough idea: a posturing, on-the-skids Hollywood star (Uta Hagen) attempting a comeback in a Rome-made art movie. Unfortunately, the audience gets the idea all too soon, and thereafter gets it again & again & again, in louder, lengthier, ever less effective doses. The actress keeps putting on one kind of scene while the Italian director rehearses another, and there are yet other scenes with the husband Miss Hagen is supposed to have divorced but hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...message, though lengthier, was not on the same plane as the first telegraphed message-Samuel Morse's "What hath God Wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Flying Words | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...bleats about the social lacks of Harvard people might titillate the back country, but otherwise "George Apley" is a capsule version of a theme that requires more careful, lengthier treatment. A last glowing touch in achieved by Peggy Cummins, who plays the debutante Miss Apley aided by an Irish brogue that doesn't often grace Louisburg Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Late George Apley | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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